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I'l be the first American to admit that I have a far too limited knowledge of the rest of the world. I'm usually content to slurp my hamburger flavored latte while watching extreme QVC and being a bigot, so when someone told me that there was an actual place in the world known as Tokelau,(my spell check didn't even pick it up) cultural cynicism told me to be skeptical. That was before I was introduced to the pleasant tropical website known as Dot TK. Replete with Polynesian mythology and pidgin English, it would have been enough for it to be merely a chaotic attempt at Island-heritage preservation. But, as it turned out, this website was head and shoulders above other similar noble savage sanctuaries. So began an Era.
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According to Tino, the site's host, the page was created to represent the Island of Tokelau, a dependancy of New Zealand( you know your a grade f country when...), to the world. It offers free domain names under the auspices of that formerly mentioned island nation, which of course flies in the face of the reasonable assumption that tiny, nondescrpit Pacific dependencies do not get their own internet extention. |
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Schoolchildren learn Island virtues and the internet |
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I knew I had to seize this golden opportunity to raise my infant geocities page to internet superstardom. Within a few agonizingly tedious minutes of registration, I was happily equipped with a brand new Island of Tokelau address. Thanks, Polynesians. I hope this is only the beginning of a burgeoning relationship between one distracted Maine teen and beautiful tropical paradise. |
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Location of Tokelau. Appropriately nondescript |
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